Science in 1900 London: The Chemical Society

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of science in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this look at the Chemical Society:

The only other Society I shall refer to is the Chemical Society at Burlington House (the right-hand side), founded in 1841, where fortnightly meetings are held from November to June for the reading and discussing of papers, abstracts of which are published periodically.

It gives the most delightful conversaziones, always largely attended, but absolutely packed when any demonstration, such as of the X-rays, is expected, when young ladies and their companions of the sterner sex are equally desirous to have depicted in gruesome fashion, their osseous charms, their hands as skeletons, the working of their elbow joints, and the articulation of their wrists and fingers.

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